HSwMS Sölve

Sölve as a museum ship
History
Sweden
NameSölve
NamesakeSölve
BuilderEricsson-D'Ailly
Launched1875
Out of service1919
ReclassifiedConverted into an oil barge, 1919?
Fate
General characteristics
TypeHildur-class monitor
Displacement460 t (450 long tons) (deep load)
Length39.78 m (130 ft 6 in)
Beam8.72 m (28 ft 7 in)
Draft2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Installed power2 cylindrical boilers; 155 ihp (116 kW)
Propulsion2 shafts, 2 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines
Speed8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement48
Armament
  • 1 × 240 mm (9.4 in) M/69 gun
  • 2 × 76 mm (3 in) guns
Armor

HSwMS Sölve is one of seven Hildur-class monitors built for the Swedish Navy in the mid-1870s. The ship had an uneventful career and was sold in 1919 for conversion into a barge. She became a museum ship in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1992.